Export problems?

Don't worry -- just an oversight...

Spock takes on Wretchard's pessimism. I think he mostly comes out on top. But the next few years will be quite interesting...

Brother, can you spare a code? (Hat tip Glenn)

Progress seen near Iran. (Hat tip Glenn)

Analyzing the grant application.

The election on the rules of engagement.

Somehow, I forgot about my second Marxist indoctrination...

The Heinz 57?

In a surprising last-minute upset, all seven Democratic presidential hopefuls somehow lost the Democratic primaries Tuesday...

Most people who were abused are child abusers? WHOOPS!

What's going on in Iraq?

On not staying up late...

Unexpected celebrations at the FBI?

Only a handful?

If we do it, it rules! And a new German word ;)

On the intelligence of Iraqis and journalists... and Zarqawi goes to work.

The Second Conjecture Fulfilled

We will save our fingertips at the cost of delivering ourselves entire into the pit.

Not enough flies? Spin good news until you're dizzy with CNN and crew ...

Not to say there isn't bad news as well... (Hat tip Doug.)

Texans *do* play poker ;)

HUMOROUS INTERLUDE: The Cartoon Laws of Physics

A doom fisking and lots of discussion...

Reconsidering Intelligence

David Warren points out the sad truth about intelligence:

There is also too little appreciation of what e.g. the military historian John Keegan has been stressing in his recent journalism. Reliable intelligence has rarely been available to any power in the world's history. It is by messing in with sheer brute force that one soon finds what is going on. And this is the Bush administration's greatest success: messing in. They have not waited for an American or European city to go up in radioactive smoke before doing something.

No pederasty here ... just move along now...

They have learned nothing...

and they have forgotten nothing.

The analogy of the shell game distracting from the pick-pocket pretty well puts our current disastrous mess in context...

Now, even ElBaradei gets it...